William Butler Yeats, a pivotal figure in modern literature, masterfully blended mysticism, politics, and folklore, ...

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved ...

November 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous and influential poems of the 20th century. It is titled “The Second Coming.” It was written in 1919 by the Irish ...

RECENT celebrations of the great Irish poet W B Yeats (1865-1939) have included a fascinating appreciation of his life and work by Bob Geldof on BBC4. Here are two of Yeats’s short but best known ...

Mistakes are instructive. In particular, they can become a form of analysis, as, for example, in sports or music, when getting something a little bit wrong leads to improvement in technique or ...

A series of events are taking place across Sligo to celebrate Yeats Day - marking 160 years since the birth of Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats. The Yeats Society is inviting people across Ireland ...

For the month of June 2015 Drama on One presents a short series of programmes where poets will offer their personal responses and reflections on favourite poems by the Great Man of Irish Letters. In ...